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styts

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About styts

Full-stack freelancer living in Vienna, Austria. Current stack - JavaScript, previously Python/Django.

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    Comment #19755573

    I'm positive I've recognised some items from the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jabberwocky poem.

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    Comment #19345216

    Quick tip - screenshot is good, but add a video of the bootloader in action, it will get you more shares from the visual crowd.

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    Comment #17581563

    Watched the talk a few years ago. Several times. It really hit home. Before, I would try to introduce abstractions as soon as I had one instance of duplication. After, my code has …

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    Comment #17521912

    Given how much hype blockchain projects attract, I'd dare say that it's about time we had distributed and uncensorable crowd funding platforms.

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    Comment #14662265

    I have this habit too, and always wondered about it. Wish someone would have done a study on it.

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    Comment #14413730

    I've managed to break the daily habit by installing a browser extension that removes the main feed, while leaving the others, e.g. groups. Not able to delete my account completely,…

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    Comment #14348384

    In my country you can apply for social housing online - but you never know when new listings will be published. So I built a scraper that used a telephony api to give me a call whe…

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    Comment #9629731

    I imagine it would be great to sit through my commute, while typing something on my knees, with the touchscreen keyboard integrated into the fabric of my trousers.

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    Comment #9427389

    I have to remind you of Excel. A large fraction of office workers today use it to 'code', transforming data given the rules they wrote.

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    Comment #9305797

    They better have a leet reader at hand, as they might get a lot of cover letters written in it.

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    Comment #9027443

    I am reminded of a different creature: Rat Thing from Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash.

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    Comment #8971576

    A Readme with some screenshots I would find useful.

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    Comment #8405420

    The only cheat sheet I remember using was http://www.viemu.com/vi-vim-cheat-sheet.gif when I was learning vim. Otherwise just googling a quick answer seems most efficient (or quick…

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    Comment #7614734

    Can you give an example of what you consider "instant message virtual keyboards"? Do you mean voice recognition services like those offered by Apple and Google?

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    Comment #7325509

    SEEKING WORK – REMOTE or in Vienna, Austria. Full-stack Python/Django web developer; have worked remotely with clients outside Europe. I have worked on: * a large database app for …

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    Comment #7210747

    I built a browser-based puzzle game based on a concept from Machinarium: http://unbeaded.com/ My friends liked it, but I haven't had much success showing it off on the Internet.

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    Ask HN: is it ok to list past achievements as employee in consultancy portfolio?

    I have a CS degree and a few years of employment as a web/software developer. The next step is starting a software consultancy, as a sole founder. The problem: the main items on my…

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    Comment #6464794

    Regarding this form of mockup: it was not clear what else I could do besides clicking between the years from the dashboard view. In general, I think many will not have figured out …

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    Comment #6383283

    I have installed it with homebrew several times, just pay attention to the instructions of the "brew install postgres" command.

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    Comment #5944924

    A _gene_ for weight.

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    Comment #5944920

    Could you add a genome for "weight"? Some cars seem so light that they overturn easily.

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    Comment #5775873

    You sound like you're trying to learn several things at once. How do you e.g. expect to successfully learn a technique like TDD, if you constantly have peculiarities of a new OS ge…

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    Comment #5567157

    I wonder if we could see a map like this for the whole world.

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    Comment #5172283

    As a developer I only keep my source files symlinked to Dropbox, thus avoiding the problem of uploading binaries. Dropbox serves as a means to recover lost changes, should somethin…

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    Comment #5050504

    Exactly. An editor, a shell and a browser is all you need. I feel sorry for all MS devs who have to use so many platform-specific tools.